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Spouses, Hans Westermark (72) and Lorraine Westermark [no age given], share a conversation about their childhoods and how they first met. Hans also talks about how he came to the United States from Sweden, and Lorraine talks about her career...

an interview with my grandma talking about how times have changed.

Reverend Heather Brewer (53) interviews Sarah O'Reilly (82) about contracting polio at twelve years old and the impact that had on her life.

Stanley Yarnell (66) talks with Emily Smith Beitiks (31) about being a physician and living with disabilities. Stanley describes where he grew up, how he became blind, training with a cane, becoming a disability advocate, experiencing job discrimination and how...

Claire Griffin Francell (85) speaks with her daughter Mary Francell-Sharfstein (54) about herself as a first generation immigrant in the United States, growing up in Massachusetts during the Great Depression and her life as a nurse, educator and volunteer.

Marci describes her experience with polio at 7 years old as well as the ways in which it has affected her life.

Interview with Patricia Harkaway (age 93) about communicable diseases (tuberculosis, polio, and COVID) in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Polio,childhood,nursing

Stories from childhood.

Hear Karen Marie Smith (74) of Ridgefield, CT share how a commitment to positive growth, faith, love and a choice to see life with a sense of humor can move us forward through life's challenges and pain. Hear how life...

Hollie Rogin, 52, interviews her father, Alan Rogin, 81 about the effects of him spending 9 months in a full body cast at the age of 16, due to post-polio syndrome, and how to overcome the challenges of isolation during...

Margaret Sturgill interviews her friend and coworker Dennis Horton (60) about his childhood diagnosis of polio and how it changed his life.

One Small Step partners Marion Fulton (89) and Sabra Lumbert (34) discuss their very different backgrounds, their experiences teaching in Asia, and their differing views on abortion

Julie Scharper (42) shares a conversation with her mother, Diane Scharper [no age given], about Diane’s experience of having polio as a child.

DSW in conversation with MJA, TFR, WCS, PMR PMR Jr and son SDW - Residents; recruitment for Orthopaedic Surgery; ABOS certification - accelerated; Canadian training; Infancy of arthroscopy and total hips; Rancho/Akron Rehab Hospital; Polio; Outlying Clinics

Stories with grandaddy

Hayley Norton (36) interviews her grandmother, Gramme Alice (87), about her childhood in rural Missouri and her experience raising her three children.

Kanani Choy, 57 is interviewed by her good friend Holly Cost 53.

Randall Black (67) tells her daughter, Holly Phillips (44), about his childhood on his family's farm in Illinois and about contracting, surviving, and recovering from polio as a young child.

Carol Bulwinkle was born in Santa Barbra, California and moved to Charlotte North Carolina shortly after she got Polio as a child. The effects still impact her today. She grew up in Charlotte and moved to Charleston, South Carolina when...

Steve Desroches (47) and Adam Peck (84) have a rather philosophical discussion shortly after Adam's 84th birthday and on his 41st wedding anniversary about life, the passing of time, and the rhythms and patterns in life, if there even are...

A man talks about having Polio as a child that made him physically handicapped, and his experiences teaching physically handicapped children.

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Mary Macnabb recounts experiences from her childhood and present years, and discusses the many hardships she has endured.

Gary interviews his grandmother Irene about her life.